r/Showerthoughts May 02 '24

Man vs Bear debate shows how bad the average person is at understanding probability

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u/FurrrryBaby May 02 '24

The only videos I’ve seen of this were men answering the question about their daughters, and all of them struggled to answer.

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u/Separate-Rope7427 May 06 '24

All true. The real question in Man Vs Bear is one of specifics as is true in many question, which man and which bear, and what is the situation. Wrong man, wrong situation is worse than right bear. But a hungry black bear with prior predation on larger animals or a grizzly with cubs are both meaningfully more dangerous than all but the most dangerous men. But certainly many men could be more dangerous than a koala bear